Window-screen.



E. RIBAGK. WINDoW SCREEN. APPLIUATION FILED OT. 22, 1909.

Q H c Jh fm2/Vix UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEicE.

ELIAS RIBACK, 0F CHICAGO,`ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OFTHI'RTY-FIVEVONE-HUNDREDTI-IS TO 'MAX SIEGEL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

WINDOW-SCREEN.

To all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ELIAS RTBAGK, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Window- Screens, of which the following, when taken in connection-with the drawing accompanying and forming apart hereof, is a full and complete description sufficient to enable those skilled in the art to which it pertains to understand, make, and use the same.

This invention relates to window screens used to prevent flies or other insects passing through open windows.

The object of this invention is to obtain .a window screen which will not be in place before a window opening when the window thereof is closed and which willbe automatically put in place before the window.

opening as the window is opened.

A further obj ect of the invention is to obtain a window screen of the kind described which may be easily detached so that the window may be raised without automatically placing the screen before the opening thereof; and also a device which may easily be entirely removed from the window and readily replaced thereon, when desired.

A further object is to obtain a device of the kind named which will be certain in operation and require no care on the part of the operator and which when the window is closed will be protected from wind,vrain and snow. j

In the drawing referred to Figure l is a front elevation, from outside a building, of a window provided with a device embodying this invention, said window and device being closed. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of said window and device, on line 2--2 of Fig. l, viewed in the direction indicated by the arrow. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view of a window having a device embodying this invention attached thereto, said window and device being partially open. Fig. 4 is an end elevation, on an enlarged scale, of a device embodying this invention. Fig. 5 is a plan View of a portion of one of the members of the screen of the device. Fig. 6 is a plan view of a portion of a base forming an element of the device. Fig. 7 is a vertical section of a latch and lifting pin forming an element of the Specification of Letters-Patent.

Application'led October 22, 1909.

Patented July 5, 1910. seri-arno. 524,012.

arranged to forma base, which is secured to `bar b of the window sash B. Pin C is hollow and provided `with groove C.

D is a latch which isvprovided with the end cl and-with pin or4 rod al.

Eis a spring on pin or rod d. vLatch D .is yieldingly held in theposition illustrated in Fig. by spring E, and may be forced back againstthe resiliency of said spring in groove C. End d of latch D, is arranged to engage with rod .or barF of one i of the members of the screen G to atta-ch one edge of said member to the window sash.

`The screen Gr comprises the members g, g, g, g which arepivotally .attached together at Vtheir adjacent edges by hinges H, I-I, I-I. Thezmember g is pivotally attached to base `I by hinge H. Hinges H, respectively, are constructed so that the pivots It, L, thereof stand out from the` planes in which the members g, g, g, and 9 lie; and said hinges .are attached to the members `which are joined togetherthereby so that saidpivots` are parallel to but set back from the edge of .at least one of said members. lhat I term the overhang which is obtained by this set back of the hinge is lettered J in Figs. 3 and 4, and this overhang protects the joints of the several members of the screen, when the screen is open, so that flies or insects can not pass through the device; and also said overhang provides for the proper folding of the members of the screen when the window is closed. The base I is removably fastened in place on window sill a by screws K, in slots z'. Screws K are shown as consisting of the well known eyelet headed screws, so that when said eyelet heads are in the same planes as the slots t', they will pass freely therethrough, and when in planes at right angles to the planes of the slots will not pass therethrough.

L, L, are covers which are, respectively hinged tol bases M, M, by pivots m. Bases Mare secured to the sides offrame A,"so

during the opening and closingrof the AWin-g dow, or When the Windoweis partiallyopened (as in Fig. 3), said covers close the openings ,i Yat the'endsof the screens.V .When the 'covers- 1L, L, are-'down they overlap each other, and ,Y N,N, fare-'grooves which fit together, one overthe other, at sucli'time. As the Window sash Bis raised pins U, i), raise covers L, L, l(that isv turn them on pivots m from a horr- V .zontal' into a vertical position), and as the sash'is lowered said Vpins permit said covers to resume a horizontal position.

VTo permit adjustment oftliemembers g,

1g", g," and g (making them longer or shorter) to make'the screens fit Windovvs varying vin Width, eachV of said members 1s made of two pieces ofscreen p, p', overlap ping labove midwa i ofthe window, (see Fg--5) The. mem ers 9,' g, 9; Mld 9 asjmade `by me'have what is called the sel- .vage edge of wire screen along the sides thereof and-the ends,being What'are termed raW- edges, are bound by sheet metal bind- 'ingB Y The operation of the device is ;-When rod F is engaged Withjend d and sash B is raised a given distance the covers L, L, Aare turned ironia horizontalto a vertical posi- "tion, and members g.","g, ofthe: screen are raisedinto the position thereof illus- Y trated in Fig. 3. VFurther Nraisingr of said sash will first bring said/members gf', g, :into vertical planes, and continued raising of said sash will ultimately raise all of the members g, g', g. and -g into vertical v planes. When the sash is closed the members g g, g' and g. vWill assume the foldedposition,illustrated in Figs. l and 2 `and covers L, L, will' assume a horizontal Y vposition over them.

. Having thus described myinvention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Let ters Patent is n 1. Thecombination of'a plurality of Wire screens pivotally attached together, means to pivotally attach one edge of an end one of said screens to 'a Window sill, andmeans to V`pivotally attach one edge of the other end one of said screens to a Window sash, with ,A a plurality of pivotally mounted covers respectively arranged toy rest on said screens Vwhen saidscreens are folded together, and nieans'to automatically turn sai covers on their pivots to raise them off the screens, when theWindoW sash is raised.

n 2. YThe combinationvof a plurality of Wire screens each of said screens comprisin a plurality of members adjustably attac ied together, s aid screens pivotally attached together, meanslto pivotally attach one edge of an end one of said screens to a Window Vsill,'means to pivotally attach one edge of the other end one of said screens to a Window sash, With a plurality of `pivotally .mounted covers, respectively yarranged to rest on said screens When said screens'are folded together, and to overlap each other,

uandV means to automatically turn said covers on their pivots to raise them off the screens vwhen the Window sash is raised.

3. The combination of a plurality of Wire screens pivotallyf attached together, removable means to pivotally attach one edge of an end one of said screens to a Window sill, and' removable means Vto pivotally attach one edge of the other endone of said screens to (a Window sash, With a plurality of pivyotally mounted covers respectively arranged to rest on said screens when said screens are folded together, and means to automatically turngsaid covers yon their pivots to raise them oif the screens when the Window sash is'raised. Y

Y ELIAS RIBACK. Y ln the presence oft CHARLES TURNER BROWN,

. CoRA A. ADAMS. 

